Burying Hill Beach – Greens Farms, Connecticut

Burying Hill Beach ~ Werner Liepolt

Sunset Sail in Westport, Connecticut

Storm Clouds Over Martha's Vineyard

We watched an active lightning storm gather over New Bedford, Massachusetts late this afternoon as it quickly made its way across Buzzard's Bay and Vineyard Sound. By the time I got home, I received a Severe Thunderstorm Warning from the National Weather Service, forecasting 60 mph winds, rain, quarter-size hail, and wind damage to trees and power lines. When it reached the north shore of West Tisbury, there was no wind and it left little more than trace rain. That's the way it's been all summer.

Upper Makonikey ~ Martha's Vineyard

Double Scoop

The New Yorker ~ Wayne Thiebaud - Double Scoop

Cumulus Clouds over Martha's Vineyard

Tim Johnson ~ Vineyard Gazette

Mars 2020 Launched

Atlas 5 Mars 2020 Launch ~ NASA

NASA's latest Mars mission, Mars 2020 and its Perseverance Rover and Ingenuity helicopter drone, launched successfully today from Cape Canaveral. They will land in the planet's 28-mile-wide Jezero Crater on February 18, 2021 with the mission to look for microbial life.

Mars 2020 ~ Perseverance & Ingenuity – NASA

Here's some 4K video stitched together recently from thousands of NASA's still images by Britain's ElderFox Documentaries.

We're all in this together?

Steve Breen ~ San Diego Union-Tribune